The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-18

should apply by letter to their Member or
Senator at once. A new edition is to be
issued, as is the case every year, and Mem
bers are now making up their lists of those
whom they will give them to.
Wisconsin Items.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
Quotations. Wheat-No. 2, 7619@TSNc.
C0rn-No 2, 3614613615c. Oats-No.2 2, $40.
Rye-No. /, b5c. Barley-No. 2, 5915c.
Governor Rusk has appointed the follow
Ing members of the Board of State Univer-
sity RegCntss George Raymer, of Madison;
Hiram Smith, Of Sheboygan Falls; George
Koeppin, Of Milwaukee,; and W. P. Bart
lett, of Eau Claire.
Petitions are in circulation throughout
the State asking the Legislature to make
changes in the laws controlling convict la
Dor that will prevent its coming into COM
petition with free labor.
Edward Loew, city editor of the Arbeiter-
Zeitateg at Milwaukee, was few days ago
sentenced by Judge Sloan to thirty days
imprisonment for contempt of court
Ole C. Early, foreman in Sharp's
camp, on the Eau Claire river, was struck
on the head by broken limb the other
day, predicting fatal injuries.
Iu6 IGL1dlulLS FdSCo VI buC wy COONOio
and the Bay View rioters will be taken up
at Milwaukee on the 4th of April.
AtApp1eton the other day Judge Myers
announced his intention of making rule
that no important papers in the nature of
judgments or the like, which were to be
fled for reference at subsequent times,
should be written with typewriter, as he
considered that they could not be preserved
intactand legible for generation
Alfred Perkins dwelling, on his farm in
the town of Newark, Rock County, was
burned the other morning, the fire origi-
mating from chimney. Loss, 81 100; insur-
ance, 500.
Horace Heath, an old resident of Clark
County, was fatally injured at Spencer the
other day Heath was hauling lumber
with a span of mules, and while on the rail
road track at the crossing was run into by
locomotive. The team escaped injury,
but Heath was terribly mangled and
bruised
The ice On Ashland bay is covered with
fishermen, who are reported to be making
large catches.
A liches tree, imported from China has
taken root ia Sheboygan County, and is
now in a flourishing condition. Its fruit Is
said to possess a>pleasant flavor.
Royal d. Jennings, treasurer of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Railroad Com
pany, died of paralysis the other afternoon
at st. Augustine, Fla. He was seventy
years of age His remains were brought
to Milwaukee for interment.
Several gentlemen have founded in
Northern Wisconsin village by the name
of Glenwood. Following the example OF
Hayward in Sawyer County, they have in
serted in all the deeds provlsO that the
sale of any kind of ardent spirits on any
lot in the village shall cause the property
to revert to the original owner.
The celebrated Catherwood divorce case
was decided at OconomOwOc recently in
favor of the defendant, William l.. Gather
wood The court held that Nellie P. Phil
lips had not been married to Mr.. Gather
wood.
Governor Rusk has turned over to the
State Historical Society large and hand
somely bound book containing reproduc~
lions in fac smile of all the resolutions,
letters, etc, from foreign persons or bodies
upon receipt of the news of the assass1na-
tion of Abraham Lincoln. The volume was
published by the Government at Washing
ton.
Hans Gunderson, of Eau Claire, foreman
in one of Allen CamerOn's camps up the
Chippewa, was instantly killed by falling
tree, few days ago.
Two masked men recently went into the
saloon of SANDY Mcdonald at Pence and,
pointing revolvers at his head, robbed him
Of $500. The robbers escaped.
1t only cost $4,000 to run the State fish
hatcheries last year.
Early the other morning the, farm resi-
dence of James Williams, in the eastern
part of Eau Claire County, with most OF its
contents, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
S1,500; insurance, $500.
Mrs. N. Jarvis, prominent lady of La
Crosse, died while giving birth to child
recently. She was forty-tive years old
and the mother of sixteen children.
One of the young towns in the mining
district of Northern Wisconsin bears the
interesting name of "a Little Chunk Of
Hell.n
Mrs. G. NJ Folsom, wife of a well-known
oil merchant at Milwaukee, began suit for
divorce the other day on the ground Of
cruel and inhuman treatment
Turtle creek, which empties into the
Rock river at Beloit, beat its record for
high and sudden raise the other day.
Hundreds of acres of land, said never be-
fore to have been flooded, were inundated,
and the occupants of several houses just
south of the city were driven out, and in
some cases the.r lives were imperiled.
Mrs. Polly Kelley, who had reached her
ninety-seventh year, was buried a few days
ago from her late home at Augusta, Eau
Claire County She was the oldest woman
in the county.
The Indians on the Bad River reserva-
ton are suffering from an epidemic of
measles, which is usually very fatal among
them.
Charles B gelow, of Palmyra, jefferson
County, while sliding from a stack of hay
few days ago fell upon broken-handled
fork standing up where he slid down and
the end of the handle ran into HIM near his
groin, inficting an injury from which he
died soon afterwards.
The Scandinavian Hotel at Eau Claire,
was burned the other day. Loss, s., 800;
insurance, 1900.
a contagion, somewhat similar to the
epizootic in its effects. has broken out
among the horses in the logging camps, in
the Chippewa and Black river districts,
which is causing considerable fatality.
frame building at Kewaunee occupied
by Thomas Plawacek for an agricultural
warehouse was, with its contents, de-
stroyed by fire few days ago. Loss,
80, 90; insurance, 81 800.
A coal bed has been discovered in Outa-
gamie County and Investigations are being
made with a view to examining its value.
Natural gas is said to be abundant in the
same region.